I occasionally reveal some aspects of my childhood and upbringing here with absolutely no intention of ever actually explaining myself. As to that, Goode Reader, neither should you lest you find out the hard way that self-justification serves no purpose in a fulfilling Life.

No, I believe it better to leave the Great Unwashed stuck forever in tentative quandary wherein, when it comes to you, they lack the coordinates to find the dividing line between getting kissed or killed.

Tonight we will attend five obscure interviews with an equal number of persons of note, the creativity of whom should be well known to all assembled here. This is brought to us by Blank on Blank, which you should not stop here in exploring to the utmost. When you’re done here, sally forth and plunder their YouTube channel here.

None of these people require further invitation. I’ll leave it to you to decide on a suitable libation to pair with each, and encourage you to tell me of your choices in the comments below.

“If I did a story or a musical about Cinderella, they would be waiting for the body to turn up” – Alfred Hitchcock in 1957

”The most unfettered imagination belongs to young people, and they don’t walk through life; they fly” – Rod Serling in 1963.